"Recently, some people have mistakenly attributed the "live coding" concept to me, but it's not a new idea, it's certainly not "my idea", and it's not a particularly interesting idea in itself. Immediate-update is merely a prerequisite for doing anything interesting -- it enables other features which require a tight feedback loop. An action game with a low frame rate is a bad game, but simply upping the frame rate doesn't magically make a game good."